Lucy Haslam

Lucy is a retired nurse, mother and grandmother who with her son Dan began the campaign to reintroduce medicinal cannabis into Australia in 2014. Dan at that time was suffering from stage 4 bowel cancer and received incredible relief from cannabis but both he and his mother were criminals for procuring illicit cannabis to ease his suffering.

Dan lost his battle in February 2015 aged just 25. Despite this, Lucy’s campaign for the re-introduction of Medicinal Cannabis saw its legal status change on the first anniversary of his death. Lucy founded the charity United in Compassion in 2014 and she now sees her role as both advocate for other patients and as an educator in Dan’s memory. In 2020 she co-founded The Australian Medicinal Cannabis Association where she now sits as Board Member and Chair. Lucy also founded The Australian Chapter of The Society of Cannabis Clinicians in 2020 in the hope that education of Health Professionals can encourage greater acceptance of cannabis as medicine within the medical profession.

Lucy strives to keep the emerging industry patient centric and morally grounded and still battles the politics to better access to medicinal cannabis for all Australian patients.